Thursday, 18 April 2013

Amazing things I've liked recently: April 2013

Hello everyone, long time no blog
viewing! So yes, I'm still alive. Back at uni, things have been crazy already
and this is the first week back after the holiday, so tired. So I'm taking a
break from a composition piece to tell you about certain products I've been
loving recently because A. My favourites videos do really well on my YouTube
channel and B. I'm taking a break from YouTube at the moment so I thought I
would just write about certain products.

Ok.
First thing is the Britney Spears Fantasy Twist perfume or perfumes.

How pretty does this look?
Reminds me of a girly Pokeball! As you probably know the original Fantasy
perfume is one of my absolute favourites so I was so sad when I ran out of it
before February. During a visit to see my bessie in Edinburgh, she had the
Midnight Fantasy perfume which also smells amazing so when I saw this I knew I
instantly wanted to get this. I got the 100ml version so you get 50ml of both
perfumes, so it's the biggest size. And wait for it, it was £31, brand new on eBay.
That's the price of one designer perfume. Great value for money and lovely
scents, what more do you want?

Make
Up related things. Tropical Shine Nail Files.

Story behind this, my 9 year old
cousin did my nails and makeup on Christmas Day so for my birthday this year,
from her and her brothers and of course my auntie and uncle, I got a beautiful
make up bag with nail polishes and nail files inside. I needed new nail files
because the one I had was a cheap one and I now have two of the Tropical Shine
ones and they're so much better. Absolutely love them. :)

Collection
Lasting Perfection Concealer. This product is now a life necessity.

I have had the Natural Collection
cover up cream before but this concealer is 10 times better and it's only
double the price so it's £4 as supposed to £2. Lasts for absolutely ages,
covers spots really well, this product has been raved my most beauty YouTubers
for ages so I really wish I got this a lot earlier because this is incredible!
Ladies, you need this product, you really do!

Rimmel
London Stay Matte Pressed Powder.

The
concealer and the powder are a match made in heaven. It actually makes my skin
look pretty decent for once and it reduces the shine and oil on my nose
especially for a day, the last powder I had didn't really work out.

Food.
Diet Coke with Cherry, I am addicted to the stuff.

Bought
an 8 Pack on Saturday, nearly finished it now, one left. SO BAD! But it tastes
amazing, honestly can't get enough of it. You can of course get bottles of
these which they sell in the shop just outside my halls so yeah. LOVE IT!

Cadbury's
Highlights Hazelnut Hot Chocolate.

I have said that I love the
Hazelnut Hot Chocolate in Starbucks but ever since I bought three of these tubs
from Amazon after trying sachets, I have never had one from Starbucks since.
Hazelnut and Chocolate is a match made in heaven. It's has such a sexy smooth
taste, freaking adore it! Yes, a little pricey but I got three of them for £10
on Amazon and they last for a little while considering how much of the stuff I
have a week. LOVE IT!

Reese's.
Ever since I got them as a university freebie in September, I've never looked
back.

These are so rare to find but I
found them at home and have fallen in love all over again. Chocolate, Peanut
Butter, special offer when you get three of these packets for £1.20. What more
can I say, j'adore! :)

Carrying
on with food, I've had so many Indian takeaways during the Easter break, it was
actually ridiculous.

I even had some before the Easter
break. I had an Indian night with my flatmate and it was amazing. Actually it
was Chicken, a jar of curry sauce, rice and popadoms but we're students ok?
Takeaways are expensive. I had two curries on my first and last day of my
holidays when I went home at one of my favourite restaurants in my local city.
The curry is served with crinkle cut chips, YUM! Also a brand new Indian
takeaway opened in my hometown so I had three takeaways from there in the three
weeks I was home. It's really good, I'm actually impressed by the high standard
of the curries at home. And of course there was my curried pasta and so on.
Basically, I've had a lot of curry. A LOT.

Favourite
TV Programmes. Broadchurch. OH. MY. GOD!!!

First of all, it has David
Tennant in it. One of my all time favourite actors plus he's a absolute
stunner. And Scottish. YAY! But the story, wow it's exciting. Basically an 11
year old boy gets murdered in a village that has never had a murder in it
before and everyone is a suspect. The last episode is on Monday, 9PM ITV
although I like watching it without breaks on player, it's so tense and
exciting. I can't wait to finally discover who the murderer is, I have an idea
but yes, gripping, tense, cinematography is epic and the actors are amazing
too, especially my David. hehe.

The
Village. Love this series.

It's about the oldest man in
Britain who tells his story about his childhood during the First World War. His
family have a tense relationship, the father drinks a lot and is violent whilst
the mother is scared and timid. Of course the young boy sees his older brother
leave to go to war and you see how this family lives in this little village.
John Simm is incredible as the father, superb acting. Really amazing programme to
sit down, relax on a Sunday evening and watch. Highly recommend it. Sunday 9PM,
BBC One.

Music.
For some reason, I've been playing this song on repeat. Don't You Worry Child -
Swedish House Mafia

I'm not
too keen on dance music, I have a couple of favourite tracks but there's
something about the lyrics to this song that sets it out from most dance
tracks. The vocal in this is really good too.

Falling
Down by Muse. A classic but amazing!

For some reason, I never realised
that I didn't have the first Muse album after having all the other ones. I
absolutely adore Muse and when I heard this song, wow, it's so beautiful. It's
a slow, waltz like song that can easily be played for the first wedding dance.
It's actually a contender on the list I have now, I love it so much.

Once
In A Lifetime - Landon Austin. Another wedding dance contender, so cute!

For some reason I like soppy
songs recently. Landon Austin is one of my favourite YouTube musicians so when
I first heard this song, I instantly loved it. If you like acousticy like
songs, you'll like this. Everytime it comes on my iPod, I have to listen to it.
:)

And
favourite album recently, you ready for this... Gareth Gates - What My Heart
Wants To Say.

So happy I found this album
again, this was my favourite growing up. Gareth was my first crush ever when I
was 8 so when I listened to the songs on here, I imagined that he was telling
me that he loves me. hehe. Everytime I listen to this, I turn into that 8 year
old once again. Cheesy pop, yes but there are beautiful songs in this album. :)

Games.
Draw Something.

I am playing a game currently
against my gorgeous friend Harriet and I really enjoy the beautifully artistic
drawings we both draw to each other. So funny and yet addictive. :)

The
Sims 3.

Yes, I'm behind on the whole Sims
wagon with only playing the mobile phone demos but this game is so addictive
it's ridiculous. Shame that the characters age so quickly, this game is
hilarious though and you really wish your Sim life was your real life. :P

Films.
Mr Popper's Penguins.

This film is so cute! It was so
good because my close friend got me the DVD for my birthday and we went to see
the film when it was out at the cinema two years ago. The penguins are so cute
and Jim Carrey. Legend. Absolute legend. :)

Oz:
The Great and Powerful.

Ok so the story is predictable
and Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and even James Franco are really irritating at
points but the design and visual effects are nothing short but staggering.
Especially at the start when it's black and white then the screen changes to
widescreen and colour, it's so beautiful. And Zach Braff. Another one of my
favourite actors and he's so cute as the flying monkey and his cameo at the
start. Freaking adore Zach Braff. :)

Websites.
eBay.

Bought
so many things on this website ever since I finally got my PayPal account
sorted in January. I've bought so many various things from saxophone pad savers
to vacuum storage bags and most of the things you get are so cheap. Also
selling things on there has given me more space when I'm at home, I have so
much junk. So much.

Keek.
Like YouTube but much smaller.

As I have a lot of work to do at
university, Keek is really handy for short webcam videos to keep people updated
and also most YouTubers and celebrities use Keek. Shame I can't get an app for
it on my Blackberry or my Kindle but oh well. It's good anyway.

LoveFilm
Instant.

Thanks to this website, I have
watched 5 series of Scrubs back to back and I'm now watching Buffy the Vampire
Slayer because I haven't seen the whole thing yet. Yes, judge me, I'm a Buffy virgin.
But this site is really good for movies and TV programmes on the go and good
thing is, they team up with Amazon so I can get videos straight to my Kindle.

So
yeah, that's a couple of things that I've loved recently. Soon, I'll be making
favourites videos again but for now, hope you enjoyed this blogpost. Until next
time, ciao freakazoids! :P